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Book Darogan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aled Llion Jones
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2013-10-15
  • ISBN : 0708326773
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Darogan written by Aled Llion Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political prophecy was a common mode of literature in the British Isles and much of Europe from the Middle Ages to at least as late as the Renaissance. At times of political instability especially, the manuscript record bristles with prophetic works that promise knowledge of dynastic futures. In Welsh, the later development of this mode is best known through the figure of the mab darogan, the 'son of prophecy', who - variously named as Arthur, Owain or a number of other heroes - will return to re-establish sovereignty. Such a returning hero is also a potent figure in English, Scottish and wider European traditions. This book explores the large body of prophetic poetry and prose contained in the earliest Welsh-language manuscripts, exploring the complexity of an essentially multilingual, multi-ethnic and multinational literary tradition, and with reference to this wider tradition critical and theoretical questions are raised of genre, signification and significance.

Book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language  Vol  I

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language Vol I written by William Owen Pughe and published by William Owen Pughe. This book was released on 2022-04-23 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Owen Pughe, A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Vol. II; London: Printed for E. Williams, 1803.

Book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language  D Dd

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language D Dd written by Daniel Silvan Evans and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Redeemer

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  • Author : Elissa R. Henken
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780801483493
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book National Redeemer written by Elissa R. Henken and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively interdisciplinary study, Elissa R. Henken combines the tools of the historian and the folklorist to explore the development of a powerful, polysemous cultural symbol. Owain Glyndwr, called Owen Glendower by Shakespeare, led the last major armed rebellion of the Welsh against the English in the early fifteenth century. He has become an important symbol of modern Welsh nationalism. Henken examines the roles Glyndwr played both in his own lifetime and in subsequent centuries.

Book Eastern European Perspectives on Celtic Studies

Download or read book Eastern European Perspectives on Celtic Studies written by Michael Hornsby and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions from a range of scholars, not only from the Celtic heartlands, but further afield such as Austria, Canada and Poland. The chapters are based upon a number of presentations on a wide range of Celtic Studies given at a conference in Poznań, Poland, in October 2014. The book, as such, emphasizes the international aspect of the field, and highlights the relatively strong position of Celtic Studies in Poland, through the inclusion of Polish scholars working on Irish and Breton, and by introducing an academic audience to the ‘conversation’ on Celtic matters which was held recently on Polish soil. Celtic Studies are currently undergoing a series of changes with respect to the approaches adopted, and the field is brought into question in this volume with an examination of the notion of Celtoscepticism, which, as pointed out, when tackled in the right way, can breathe new life into the subject and can be viewed as a positive movement. As such, a number of contributions here problematize the changes in thinking of many linguists over the concept of who is a speaker of a Celtic language and how well they speak it, as well as the connection between traditional Celtic cultural practices and the concept of well-being. The volume also provides chapters on Mediaeval Celtic Studies which showcase the work of a number of emerging scholars in the field, who examine various aspects of Celtic textuality in Mediaeval Scotland, Brittany and Wales. Indeed, this book gives voice to a number of early career scholars, placing them carefully alongside more established scholars in the field, in order to show the continuation of established methods of investigation.

Book Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium  24 25  2004 And 2005

Download or read book Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 24 25 2004 And 2005 written by Samuel Jones and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume 24: Manuel Alberro, "The Celticity of Galicia and the Arrival of the Insular Celts"; Brenda Gray, "Reading Aislinge Óenguso as a Christian-Platonist Parable"; and 6 other articles. In Volume 25: Timothy P. Bridgman, "Keltoi, Galatai, Galli: Were They All One People?"; Chao Li, "On Verbal Nouns in Celtic Languages"; and 6 other articles.

Book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language explained in English

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language explained in English written by William Owen Pughe and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg  A Welsh and English Dictionary     To which is prefixed  a Welsh Grammar

Download or read book Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg A Welsh and English Dictionary To which is prefixed a Welsh Grammar written by afterwards OWEN PUGHE OWEN (called Idrison., William) and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language Explained in English

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language Explained in English written by William Owen and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jasper

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  • Author : Sara Elin Roberts
  • Publisher : Fonthill Media
  • Release : 2017-05-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Jasper written by Sara Elin Roberts and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, Duke of Bedford, brother and uncle of kings, was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, and the Lancastrian claimant during the reign of Edward IV. The second son of Owen Tudor and the widowed queen Katherine of Valois, he was the half-brother of Henry VI, who gave him a prominent role at court. As one of England’s major nobles and a potential successor to Henry, he was seen as a threat by Yorkists. He took part in the major battles of the war, leading the Lancastrian forces at Mortimer’s Cross and Tewkesbury. The tempestuous politics in England meant that he had to spend time in exile in Brittany, taking his nephew, Henry, with him. Under Jasper’s influence, Henry prospered and returned to England to defeat Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, leading to the establishment of the Tudor dynasty. Despite his important place in history, Jasper has become the forgotten kingmaker, neglected by historians. This book is the first full academic study of him, drawing upon contemporary sources from England, Wales and France, and the wider historiography to present a detailed and superbly-researched biography. Illustrations: 30 black-and-white illustrations

Book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Welsh Language written by William Owen Pughe and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A dictionary of the Welsh language   Preceded by  A grammar of the Welsh language  2 vols   in 3 pt     Followed by  An outline of the characteristics of the Welsh  2 vols   in 4 pt

Download or read book A dictionary of the Welsh language Preceded by A grammar of the Welsh language 2 vols in 3 pt Followed by An outline of the characteristics of the Welsh 2 vols in 4 pt written by William Owen Pughe and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey

Download or read book The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey written by Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1991 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.

Book Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative

Download or read book Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative written by Karen Pratt and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the relationship between tradition and innovation in a number of medieval romances.

Book Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition

Download or read book Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition written by James P. Carley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, some reprinted in their original form and some extensively revised, are concerned with the Arthurian traditions associated with Glastonbury Abbey. Certain of the essays are analytic and others provide editions of hitherto unknown texts. They all examine ways in which legendary materials and historical facts interconnected in the process by which Glastonbury Abbey came to present itself, nationally and internationally, as the custodian of King Arthur's relics and the burial place of Joseph of Arimathea, and the importance, political and ecclesiastical, that it derived from the connection. Professor JAMES CARLEY is the author of Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous and a past editor of Arthurian Literature. Topics: Glastonbury Legends (WATKIN, GRANSDEN), Legend of St Joseph of Glastonbury (LAGORIO), Guinevere at Glastonbury (WOOD), Vera Historia de Morte Arthuri (BARBER, LAPIDGE), Was Mordred buried at Glastonbury? (BARBER), Glastonbury in Welsh Vernacular Tradition (LLOYD-MORGAN), Second Exhumation of Arthur's Remains, 1278 (PARSONS), Abbey Memorial Plate (GOODALL), Arthur's Epitaph/s (CARLEY, BROWN, WRIGHT, WITHRINGTON), Hardyng and Holy Grail (KENNEDY, RIDDY), Henry V and Joseph of Arimathea's Bones, Holy Cross of Waltham at Montacute, Excavation of Arthur's Grave (CARLEY), Perlesvaus (Wells fragment), Quedam Narracio de nobili rege Arthuro, De Origine Gigantum (CARLEY, CRICK, EVANS), Glastonbury tablets (KROCHALIS), Relics in 14th Century (CARLEY, HOWLEY).

Book Early Modern Wales  C 1536 1689

Download or read book Early Modern Wales C 1536 1689 written by Lloyd Bowen and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more than a generation. The book assimilates new scholarship and deploys a wealth of original archival research to present a fresh picture of Wales under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. It adopts novel perspectives on concepts of Welsh identity and allegiance to examine epochal events, such as the union of England and Wales under Henry VIII; the Reformation and the Break with Rome; and the British Civil Wars and Glorious Revolution. It argues that Welsh experiences during this period can best be captured through widespread attachments to a shared history and language, and to ideas of Britishness and monarchy. The volume looks beyond high politics to examine the rich tapestry of early modern Welsh life, considering concepts of gender and women's experiences; the role of language and cultural change; and expressions of Welsh identity beyond the principality's borders.

Book The Untold History of Henry VIII and the Tudors

Download or read book The Untold History of Henry VIII and the Tudors written by Judith John and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the victory of Henry Tudor over Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, and ending with the death of the childless Elizabeth I in 1603 following a 45-year reign, the Tudor dynasty marks a period in British history where England was transformed from a minor medieval kingdom to a preeminent European power on the verge of empire.